This is even mentioned in the article. This "disruptive technology" could be a helium-filled model of the battleship Yamamoto decked out to look like the original Star Blazers wave-motion-gun bearing "spaceship" and it would still be a "model aircraft" for the purposes of the exclusion.
Just saying this is an awesome idea if no one has done this.
Part of the goal of companies in doing this is that the US is almost unique , in that it taxes the profits on foreign sales, after they have been taxed in the country of sale. Very few other countries do this. Most countries don't double tax like this.
The US is simply asking for the entire tax to be paid - if the money is made in foreign lands and stays there... fine. If it is made in foreign lands and imported, then if that tax (say 10% in China or something) would be deducted from the standard 35% corporate tax that the US levies.
So it's a tax-equalization. Any US expat knows this - it's the same for income tax, but even worse - you have to pay US taxes even if you're not on US soil or repatriated it (essentially the US thinks you'll just gift it to family or something - which makes sense given gift taxes only kick in at large dollar values).
Say Apple did pay those $60 billion in taxes. Would I see the end results of that? Would they pave some of the awful roads around here or fix some of the bridges with an "F" rating? In my daily life it would make absolutely no difference at all.
Apple isn't the only company - every one of the large ones do it. So it's not a "mere" $60B - it's probably closer to several hundred billions. Thats tax burden that you and I have to bear.
Big corporations aren't inherently evil. They just get to play by the whole world's rules, rather than just American.
Ok, sure, but they pay to have the rules changed... and they pay quite a bit to do so. So it's not the fault of the electorate if corporations are actively lobbying for lower taxes (and not just in the US, but abroad, and through treaties like TPP and agencies like the WTO, preventing the more regulated and taxed regions from enacting barriers to entry or commerce in the name of quality of life).
Yeah, if you ignore that, they sure... they're just playing the game.
Any monkey can write a novel. But it takes creativity to write a good novel.
Better challenge would be to write good mad libs. Something like that would be NP complete. You know, something for the day when holodeck fantasy simulation becomes good enough to be interesting.
Ah, but the good ideas could be focus-group tested with editors as your focus group.
Kimosabe, you're not thinking like a megacorp or VC-funded startup! Just imagine when the script editor role is outsourced to many people - you run dozens of scripts by many editors, and choose the winner(s) to be sent to another focus group of consumers^Wfilm watchers. Then you pick the ones that win and spend money on them.
Or better yet, you can splice them together to make an even better movie! Just think of the profits!
The term is entirely misleading. Zero tailpipe emissions would be accurate.
No, you can't produce clean electricity in practical way that can be used to charge cars (typically after sunset). Hydro is limited by geography and doesn't work so well in dry years. Solar is reaching its peak and daytime demand is going closer to zero in California due to too many solar installations. Demand peak starts at sunset. Google "duck" and "California grid". Solar/wind relies on new gas plants that can be turned on/off on demand. Most older ones can't, so you just run them whole day. Basically you can only use intermittent renewables under condition that your neighbors (or neighboring states) are not using them much and are ready to back you up with power of fracking product. Electricity storage is way too expensive, more expensive than peak wholesale rates for now. Seasonal power demand fluctuations are entirely hopeless matter for solar/wind without (whatever) gas that can be stored for seasons.
I notice how you leave out nuclear power. It's proven and baseload (meaning when it's running, its' running) and, given appropriate sane measures (proper waste disposal or *reprocessing* ) it's fairly clean (my gripe with nuclear is waste water heat, but most power plants are bad in more ways than nuclear.
Nukes + Solar + Wind + (legacy coal/gas) is a reasonable power portfolio. The gas plants don't really shut down during the day either.
Very cool news indeed. Let the momentum build... Comcast and Verizon can fight all they want but some places will thwart their dark grip on consumer broadband. Take that Brian Roberts, and shove those javascript insertions and torrent blocks up your seat.
Assuming that it would cost T-Mobile the same to provide a low-bandwidth unlimited-data connection to the entire Internet, (as opposed to a low-bandwidth unlimited-data connection to just their whitelisted sites)
Why would you assume that? If I can only unlimited stream from Hulu and Netflix, but pay for the data to stream YouTube, I may very well watch less YouTube, and there may not be a 1:1 replacement with Hulu or Netflix watching - since YouTube fills a very different role in video consumption. T-Mobile could very well be saving money by excluding YouTube from the free streaming.
You simply don't make sense here at all unless there are kickbacks.
There's also the possibility of kickbacks - maybe Hulu and Netflix are paying T-Mobile for the privilege of unlimited streaming. It's certainly a competitive advantage for them compared to other video services. So even if COST is the same, REVENUE may be greater with the whitelist scenario.
T-mobile has said there are no kickbacks. If we later find out that to be false, now they're liars (knowingly violated FCC/NN rules) and look like idiots. To be honest, with their 3rd place ranking, if TMO were trying to rake in profits while claiming not to, they would be angering a) FCC which would bring suit against them b) customers who feel like *their* video service should be on bingeOn c) streaming providers who don't want to have to pay every ISP for the "fast but low bitrate lane" and d) AT&T and Verizon who would see this as a botched implementation that screwed their opportunity to "let NN fail" because it'd be a slam-dunk FCC violation.
Yeah, I'll take T-mobile's word over your speculation, honestly, because your assumptions are very thin.
So the locals elect a government, that decides to cheap out and not pay Detroit for safe treated water. They further device to cheap out and not treat the river water, known to be polluted, and screw up their infrastructure in the process.
Gov Snyder placed the city under an *emergency* finance manager (wtf title is that), essentially cutting out any civic control of their own city.
It's straight out of the autocrat playbook - and it got it's results - kids were poisoned to save a % or two on water (and to starve Detroit's water treatment system... because fuck them).
Starve the beast, and let the kids get poisoned... all in a days work for a GOP governor. Hell, I'm surprised he isn't on the lineup for a 2016 presidential candidacy.
Does this really surprise anyone? This is one of the primary features of most IoT type setups - you dont own what you have bought, you are just using a service, and therefore of course they feel free to redefine that service as they wish.
They here of course is not limited to Phillips, but people will continue to be surprised by this.
Until we see some (haha! yeah right) legislation that makes it illegal for terms, level, or functionality of service to not be reduced or removed without agreement from BOTH parties, this is what we will have.
Consumers were enough for a while, but the hunger has increased, and you only paid once then! It is immoral for the middle class to be allowed to save, so more ways must be invented to empty there wallets weekly to fund the top (rulers) and the bottom (troublemakers who must be paid to stay in check)... Welcome to the machine.
Perhaps we should change the terminology: from "consumers" to "consumed".
Please stop saying "[country] will/did do this...". Instead, say "The current government of [country] will/did do this...". Governments come and go.
How in the world was this upvoted? The leader for a country talks for the country. This is especially true in France - in some ways they are more libertarian than the US (hint: when I was there 10 years ago they didn't even pre-pay their income taxes - if you don't give your 80% of estimated income to IRS in the US you get fined up the wazoo).
In other ways France is a lot more authoritarian - the leader speaks for the group. They talk in terms of consensus even in political realms. Where were you for the last 100 press releases that this guy posted using exactly the same framing?
In short, your call for "correctness" here is... misplaced.
If any country needs driverless cars, it's Korea. If you think American roads are full of drunk drivers and aggressive douchebag drivers who ignore rules of the road, you haven't been to Korea.
And I say that as an ethnic Korean.
Whatever. Try south India - like in Chennai, you have any of the given on a road at any given time: cars, busses, mopeds, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, bikes, pedestrians crossing randomly, farm animals crossing randomly, and street peddlers aggressively soliciting motorists (esp. when traffic crawls).
Additionally, it's accepted that traffic rules are best treated as "suggestions" or "recommendations", it's perfectly commonplace to see motorcycles, cars, mopeds, and the like veer into oncoming traffic on the other side to pass (I've seen a bus do this occasionally also).
It amazes me every day that more people don't die in this manifestation of primal chaos.
Truck usually is fine, as it used its mass to crush the car it runs into, and saved the truck's driver by using the car as a de facto crushbag.
That's fine, just realize that most safety equipment is mainly to protect you from yourself. Sure, the puny car in front of you is a crumple zone, but try that with a tree or a bridge abutment - ok - you're a great driver, but what happens when your tire blows out or you hit a 18-wheeler's fallen drivetrain? Shit happens.
Or do what 2 of my friends did in their SUVs (i.e., fancy trucks) - take a decreasing radius turn a bit too fast (btw, the engineers who build cloverleafs with such decreasing radii should be shamed/exiled, but the turns exist and they're all over the place). Trucks/SUVs have high centers of gravity = rollover danger.
15 year old vehicle is likely due for an upgrade, and you're kidding yourself that the older vehicle is safer (my car is only 9 years old!)
Like how Target outed a pregnant teen to her family?
Though so far it's only been used for good. The teen should have been able to have that conversation with her family, and then did. The driver who hit and run should have stopped, and then did. So far there's been no "injustice" reported, and given the rabid responses here, if there was one, I'm sure it'd be posted here many times.
While I generally agree with you - if we catch this unexpected "benefit" of technology now, perhaps we can prevent or defer it's eventual ubiquity. It's like complaining about credit agencies now (and their perverse way of scoring you such that people in debt score higher), instead of 20-30 years ago when we might have been able to do something about it.
We killed DIVX, maybe we can shame the car companies into not installing spyware-clippy into ALL of our cars. Some foolish or arrogant people will have to be the ginuea pigs.
For those who don't know, Samsung marketed this digital picture frame in 2006
That's great - I had no idea digital picture frames were secretly tablets in disguise! Who doesn't remember digital picture frames from 2003-2004 sold at Shaper Image? Guess Sharper Image (or whoever actually manufactured the products) should sue Apple too!
The next thing you need to do is start rolling pack all those social support programs, you need force people to do what they need to do to make ends meet. If that means leaving coasts for Midwest that is what needs to happen. We need to incite people to go where they can earn a living wage with the skills they possess.
Sorry, your words just sound like elitist pablum.
Sure, lets just make things harder for those who have the least - because, welp, that'll just make em stronger! I have an idea, why not make things harder for the rich who have so much, and force them to pay back into the society that made them rich? We can start with simply removing the tax loopholes that make investment income less taxed than working income - you know how it was back in Reagan's day. I'm not even proposing we go back to (that old socialist) Eisenhower's tax rates.
Was only on the way to HK, but the air quality was so bad even in the airport that my daughter (who has situational asthma) was coughing ceaselessly and we had to use her nebulizer while in the lounge - luckily we were only laying over for 3h.
I had no interest in leaving the airport to visit the city proper even if I could.
bottom line: i'm done with her. she lies and lies even more to cover up those lies. thought she had a chance. no more.
It would appear she's "buying" votes with tax incentives.
Of course, these are just campaign promises, and she's going to pay for it by raising taxes on the rich. Go figure.
As opposed to the Republican candidates who essentially lie in the other direction (claim to lower taxes on the rich/businesses by killing programs that serve the working class/poor - effectively raising tax rates for the services they still receive.).
In the end they will both serve the elite and mega-corps and the NSA/security state. Have no doubt on that. If you don't think ISIS is a construct of US meddling with the middle-east, you haven't been paying attention.
So you're saying that when Microsoft releases open source code it is ENTIRELY altruistic?
No. He is saying it isn't entirely selfish. Altruism works best when it is win-win, and everyone benefits. If Microsoft opens up source code in a way that benefits others, that is good. If they also benefit themselves, that is even better. I don't understand why some people need to criticize those doing good deeds, just because they aren't doing perfect deeds.
Amen - it definitely seems more like false equivalence by holding up everyone to an asymptotic ideal (nobody's perfect, therefore everybody and all deeds are flawed).
The problem is a lack of anything better than Firefox. Chrome/Chromium will spy on and rape your children, IE is a Microsoft product, Midori is good but still needs polish which probably won't happen because muh lightweight.
Safari? I guess Mac users aren't of interest to you (I agree FF is still more usable that Safari, but Safari isn't bad and doesn't spy).
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This is even mentioned in the article. This "disruptive technology" could be a helium-filled model of the battleship Yamamoto decked out to look like the original Star Blazers wave-motion-gun bearing "spaceship" and it would still be a "model aircraft" for the purposes of the exclusion.
Just saying this is an awesome idea if no one has done this.
Part of the goal of companies in doing this is that the US is almost unique , in that it taxes the profits on foreign sales, after they have been taxed in the country of sale. Very few other countries do this. Most countries don't double tax like this.
The US is simply asking for the entire tax to be paid - if the money is made in foreign lands and stays there... fine. If it is made in foreign lands and imported, then if that tax (say 10% in China or something) would be deducted from the standard 35% corporate tax that the US levies.
So it's a tax-equalization. Any US expat knows this - it's the same for income tax, but even worse - you have to pay US taxes even if you're not on US soil or repatriated it (essentially the US thinks you'll just gift it to family or something - which makes sense given gift taxes only kick in at large dollar values).
Say Apple did pay those $60 billion in taxes. Would I see the end results of that? Would they pave some of the awful roads around here or fix some of the bridges with an "F" rating? In my daily life it would make absolutely no difference at all.
Apple isn't the only company - every one of the large ones do it. So it's not a "mere" $60B - it's probably closer to several hundred billions. Thats tax burden that you and I have to bear.
Big corporations aren't inherently evil. They just get to play by the whole world's rules, rather than just American.
Ok, sure, but they pay to have the rules changed... and they pay quite a bit to do so. So it's not the fault of the electorate if corporations are actively lobbying for lower taxes (and not just in the US, but abroad, and through treaties like TPP and agencies like the WTO, preventing the more regulated and taxed regions from enacting barriers to entry or commerce in the name of quality of life).
Yeah, if you ignore that, they sure... they're just playing the game.
Any monkey can write a novel. But it takes creativity to write a good novel.
Better challenge would be to write good mad libs. Something like that would be NP complete. You know, something for the day when holodeck fantasy simulation becomes good enough to be interesting.
Ah, but the good ideas could be focus-group tested with editors as your focus group.
Kimosabe, you're not thinking like a megacorp or VC-funded startup! Just imagine when the script editor role is outsourced to many people - you run dozens of scripts by many editors, and choose the winner(s) to be sent to another focus group of consumers^Wfilm watchers. Then you pick the ones that win and spend money on them.
Or better yet, you can splice them together to make an even better movie! Just think of the profits!
The term is entirely misleading. Zero tailpipe emissions would be accurate.
No, you can't produce clean electricity in practical way that can be used to charge cars (typically after sunset). Hydro is limited by geography and doesn't work so well in dry years. Solar is reaching its peak and daytime demand is going closer to zero in California due to too many solar installations. Demand peak starts at sunset. Google "duck" and "California grid". Solar/wind relies on new gas plants that can be turned on/off on demand. Most older ones can't, so you just run them whole day. Basically you can only use intermittent renewables under condition that your neighbors (or neighboring states) are not using them much and are ready to back you up with power of fracking product. Electricity storage is way too expensive, more expensive than peak wholesale rates for now. Seasonal power demand fluctuations are entirely hopeless matter for solar/wind without (whatever) gas that can be stored for seasons.
I notice how you leave out nuclear power. It's proven and baseload (meaning when it's running, its' running) and, given appropriate sane measures (proper waste disposal or *reprocessing* ) it's fairly clean (my gripe with nuclear is waste water heat, but most power plants are bad in more ways than nuclear.
Nukes + Solar + Wind + (legacy coal/gas) is a reasonable power portfolio. The gas plants don't really shut down during the day either.
Very cool news indeed. Let the momentum build... Comcast and Verizon can fight all they want but some places will thwart their dark grip on consumer broadband. Take that Brian Roberts, and shove those javascript insertions and torrent blocks up your seat.
Assuming that it would cost T-Mobile the same to provide a low-bandwidth unlimited-data connection to the entire Internet, (as opposed to a low-bandwidth unlimited-data connection to just their whitelisted sites)
Why would you assume that? If I can only unlimited stream from Hulu and Netflix, but pay for the data to stream YouTube, I may very well watch less YouTube, and there may not be a 1:1 replacement with Hulu or Netflix watching - since YouTube fills a very different role in video consumption. T-Mobile could very well be saving money by excluding YouTube from the free streaming.
You simply don't make sense here at all unless there are kickbacks.
There's also the possibility of kickbacks - maybe Hulu and Netflix are paying T-Mobile for the privilege of unlimited streaming. It's certainly a competitive advantage for them compared to other video services. So even if COST is the same, REVENUE may be greater with the whitelist scenario.
T-mobile has said there are no kickbacks. If we later find out that to be false, now they're liars (knowingly violated FCC/NN rules) and look like idiots. To be honest, with their 3rd place ranking, if TMO were trying to rake in profits while claiming not to, they would be angering a) FCC which would bring suit against them b) customers who feel like *their* video service should be on bingeOn c) streaming providers who don't want to have to pay every ISP for the "fast but low bitrate lane" and d) AT&T and Verizon who would see this as a botched implementation that screwed their opportunity to "let NN fail" because it'd be a slam-dunk FCC violation.
Yeah, I'll take T-mobile's word over your speculation, honestly, because your assumptions are very thin.
So the locals elect a government
They probably didn't. A lot of cities in MI are ruled by Emergency Managers, and the locally elected officials have no power at all.
How many emergency managers were in place before Gov. Snyder (GOP)?
So the locals elect a government, that decides to cheap out and not pay Detroit for safe treated water. They further device to cheap out and not treat the river water, known to be polluted, and screw up their infrastructure in the process.
Gov Snyder placed the city under an *emergency* finance manager (wtf title is that), essentially cutting out any civic control of their own city.
It's straight out of the autocrat playbook - and it got it's results - kids were poisoned to save a % or two on water (and to starve Detroit's water treatment system... because fuck them).
Starve the beast, and let the kids get poisoned ... all in a days work for a GOP governor. Hell, I'm surprised he isn't on the lineup for a 2016 presidential candidacy.
Chrome has all the disadvantages of Firefox
Really? Because video on Firefox sucks ass, but on Chrome it's slicker than snot.
What are you running, a Dual-Pentium?
It's pretty crappy that ZigBee allows this kind of behavior while Philips still has the ZigBee label on their boxes.
Does this really surprise anyone? This is one of the primary features of most IoT type setups - you dont own what you have bought, you are just using a service, and therefore of course they feel free to redefine that service as they wish.
They here of course is not limited to Phillips, but people will continue to be surprised by this.
Until we see some (haha! yeah right) legislation that makes it illegal for terms, level, or functionality of service to not be reduced or removed without agreement from BOTH parties, this is what we will have.
Consumers were enough for a while, but the hunger has increased, and you only paid once then! It is immoral for the middle class to be allowed to save, so more ways must be invented to empty there wallets weekly to fund the top (rulers) and the bottom (troublemakers who must be paid to stay in check)... Welcome to the machine.
Perhaps we should change the terminology: from "consumers" to "consumed".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Companies often have a large influential group that is involved in M&A activity. What did you expect on /. - a well written summary?
Im ready to call an outcome: Trump wins that town in the primaries.
If he gets the nomination he wins that town in the general too.
Maybe they can convince the wifi-allergy people that solar panels also contribute to their condition.
Please stop saying "[country] will/did do this ...". ...". Governments come and go.
Instead, say "The current government of [country] will/did do this
How in the world was this upvoted? The leader for a country talks for the country. This is especially true in France - in some ways they are more libertarian than the US (hint: when I was there 10 years ago they didn't even pre-pay their income taxes - if you don't give your 80% of estimated income to IRS in the US you get fined up the wazoo).
In other ways France is a lot more authoritarian - the leader speaks for the group. They talk in terms of consensus even in political realms. Where were you for the last 100 press releases that this guy posted using exactly the same framing?
In short, your call for "correctness" here is ... misplaced.
If any country needs driverless cars, it's Korea. If you think American roads are full of drunk drivers and aggressive douchebag drivers who ignore rules of the road, you haven't been to Korea.
And I say that as an ethnic Korean.
Whatever. Try south India - like in Chennai, you have any of the given on a road at any given time: cars, busses, mopeds, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, bikes, pedestrians crossing randomly, farm animals crossing randomly, and street peddlers aggressively soliciting motorists (esp. when traffic crawls).
Additionally, it's accepted that traffic rules are best treated as "suggestions" or "recommendations", it's perfectly commonplace to see motorcycles, cars, mopeds, and the like veer into oncoming traffic on the other side to pass (I've seen a bus do this occasionally also).
It amazes me every day that more people don't die in this manifestation of primal chaos.
Truck usually is fine, as it used its mass to crush the car it runs into, and saved the truck's driver by using the car as a de facto crushbag.
That's fine, just realize that most safety equipment is mainly to protect you from yourself. Sure, the puny car in front of you is a crumple zone, but try that with a tree or a bridge abutment - ok - you're a great driver, but what happens when your tire blows out or you hit a 18-wheeler's fallen drivetrain? Shit happens.
Or do what 2 of my friends did in their SUVs (i.e., fancy trucks) - take a decreasing radius turn a bit too fast (btw, the engineers who build cloverleafs with such decreasing radii should be shamed/exiled, but the turns exist and they're all over the place). Trucks/SUVs have high centers of gravity = rollover danger.
15 year old vehicle is likely due for an upgrade, and you're kidding yourself that the older vehicle is safer (my car is only 9 years old!)
You are suddenly getting junk mail for that little (LEGAL) problem you have, and now everyone in the house knows too.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Like how Target outed a pregnant teen to her family?
Though so far it's only been used for good. The teen should have been able to have that conversation with her family, and then did. The driver who hit and run should have stopped, and then did. So far there's been no "injustice" reported, and given the rabid responses here, if there was one, I'm sure it'd be posted here many times.
While I generally agree with you - if we catch this unexpected "benefit" of technology now, perhaps we can prevent or defer it's eventual ubiquity. It's like complaining about credit agencies now (and their perverse way of scoring you such that people in debt score higher), instead of 20-30 years ago when we might have been able to do something about it.
We killed DIVX, maybe we can shame the car companies into not installing spyware-clippy into ALL of our cars. Some foolish or arrogant people will have to be the ginuea pigs.
For those who don't know, Samsung marketed this digital picture frame in 2006
That's great - I had no idea digital picture frames were secretly tablets in disguise! Who doesn't remember digital picture frames from 2003-2004 sold at Shaper Image? Guess Sharper Image (or whoever actually manufactured the products) should sue Apple too!
The next thing you need to do is start rolling pack all those social support programs, you need force people to do what they need to do to make ends meet. If that means leaving coasts for Midwest that is what needs to happen. We need to incite people to go where they can earn a living wage with the skills they possess.
Sorry, your words just sound like elitist pablum.
Sure, lets just make things harder for those who have the least - because, welp, that'll just make em stronger! I have an idea, why not make things harder for the rich who have so much, and force them to pay back into the society that made them rich? We can start with simply removing the tax loopholes that make investment income less taxed than working income - you know how it was back in Reagan's day. I'm not even proposing we go back to (that old socialist) Eisenhower's tax rates.
Was only on the way to HK, but the air quality was so bad even in the airport that my daughter (who has situational asthma) was coughing ceaselessly and we had to use her nebulizer while in the lounge - luckily we were only laying over for 3h.
I had no interest in leaving the airport to visit the city proper even if I could.
bottom line: i'm done with her. she lies and lies even more to cover up those lies. thought she had a chance. no more.
It would appear she's "buying" votes with tax incentives.
Of course, these are just campaign promises, and she's going to pay for it by raising taxes on the rich. Go figure.
As opposed to the Republican candidates who essentially lie in the other direction (claim to lower taxes on the rich/businesses by killing programs that serve the working class/poor - effectively raising tax rates for the services they still receive.).
In the end they will both serve the elite and mega-corps and the NSA/security state. Have no doubt on that. If you don't think ISIS is a construct of US meddling with the middle-east, you haven't been paying attention.
So you're saying that when Microsoft releases open source code it is ENTIRELY altruistic?
No. He is saying it isn't entirely selfish. Altruism works best when it is win-win, and everyone benefits. If Microsoft opens up source code in a way that benefits others, that is good. If they also benefit themselves, that is even better. I don't understand why some people need to criticize those doing good deeds, just because they aren't doing perfect deeds.
Amen - it definitely seems more like false equivalence by holding up everyone to an asymptotic ideal (nobody's perfect, therefore everybody and all deeds are flawed).
The problem is a lack of anything better than Firefox. Chrome/Chromium will spy on and rape your children, IE is a Microsoft product, Midori is good but still needs polish which probably won't happen because muh lightweight.
Safari? I guess Mac users aren't of interest to you (I agree FF is still more usable that Safari, but Safari isn't bad and doesn't spy).